On This Day (July 25th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in which French city ?

Bordeaux ✓

Reims ✓

Perpignan ✓

Toulouse ✓

2. 1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain in which English cathedral ?

Salisbury ✓

York ✓

Winchester ✓

Lincoln ✓

3. 1609 – The English ship "Sea Venture", en route to Virginia, is driven ashore during a storm to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there. But where ?

Nova Scotia ✓

Bermuda ✓

Virgin Islands ✓

Maine ✓

4. 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of which city promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed ?

Brussels ✓

Madrid ✓

London ✓

Paris ✓

5. 1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of which island ?

Madeira ✓

Tenerife ✓

Majorca ✓

Sardinia ✓

6. 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across which body of water in a heavier-than-air machine ?

English Channel ✓

Strait of Gibraltar ✓

Irish Sea ✓

Kattegat ✓

7. 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax as a "temporary" measure in which country ?

United Kingdom ✓

New Zealand ✓

India ✓

Canada ✓

8. 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the army of which country to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal ?

Andorra ✓

Switzerland ✓

Sweden ✓

Algeria ✓

9. 1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on which city is an attack on NATO ?

Washington ✓

London ✓

Berlin ✓

Stockholm ✓

10. 1965 – Which artist goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music ?

Bob Dylan ✓

Joan Baez ✓

Gordon Lightfoot ✓

Donovan ✓

11. 1978 – Police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders in which overseas territory ?

French Guiana ✓

Puerto Rico ✓

Cayman Islands ✓

Aruba ✓

12. 1996 – Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya in a military coup in which African country ?

Cameroon ✓

Togo ✓

Burundi ✓

Sierra Leone ✓

13. 2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at which airport ?

Amsterdam Schipol ✓

Paris Charles de Gaulle ✓

London Heathrow ✓

Paris Orly ✓

14. 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium and which other country during the July 2019 European heat wave ?

Germany ✓

France ✓

Spain ✓

Italy ✓

15. 1978 – Louise Joy Brown is born in Oldham, UK. What is her claim to fame ?

First winner of "Britains Got Talent" ✓

First National Lottery Jackpot winner ✓

First female to be head of the National Union of Miners ✓

First "Test Tube" Baby ✓

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